Matt Rogers is the best selling author of more than thirty novels and is joining us today with his new novel, inaugurating his Logan Booth series, The Forsaken. You never know who your neighbours are behind closed doors. Logan Booth is counting on that. He doesn’t want to get chummy with the denizens of Brownsville and he doesn’t want them knowing anything about him. Especially not his past. It’s a Devil’s Bargain. One that will see Logan’s only friend killed before his eyes, forcing Logan back into a life he thought he’d left behind forever.

Sinead Stubbins is a writer, editor and cultural critic, and the author of In My Defence, I Have No Defence. Her debut novel is Stinkbug. The advertising agency where Edith works is going through a restructure. Everyone’s worried the new Swedish owners will bring their own team and they’ll be out of a job. With redundancies the hot topic round the watercooler, a select group of Winked employees are chosen for a corporate retreat. Edith’s made the cut and assumes this is her chance to show her worth. The assignment is simple; find a best work friend. Easy for Edith, she’s already got Mo and while she’s got some other stuff going on, surely she can fake her way through a weekend. Sure there’s dead birds at the perimeter and Edith is hiding a dark secret. But really, what could go wrong in a converted Convent watched over by a saint called Christina the Astonishing?!

Presenting a poem and reflection by Omar Sakr as part of his new collection 'The Nightmare Sequence'.

Hilde Hinton is the bestselling author of The Loudness of Unsaid Things, and A Solitary Walk on the Moon. Hilde is joining us today with her latest novel The Opposite of Lonely.

In the late 1980’s Sydney is a long way from the global city we know today. From the beach to the Mountains awash with fluro tracksuits, hypercolour t-shirts, thongs and walkmans the harbour city can still feel like a village in your own little patch  Emmerson gets to enjoys the best of it, with harbour views courtesy of a legacy from her grandmother, the socialite and designer Marlowe Kerr. But when the body of a woman in her eighties is discovered in the northern beaches the city will be thrown into chaos. Older residents lock themselves in their homes for fear the killer may strike again.  Emmerson herself is thrust back to another legacy of her adored grandmother. Marlowe was killed in a strikingly similar way. A case that was never solved.

Shelley Burr is the bestselling author of Wake and Ripper. Her debut Wake won the UK Crime Writers' Association's Debut Dagger Award, the Australian Book Industry's Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year and the Australian Crime Writers Association's Ned Kelly Award for Best Debut Crime Fiction. Shelley’s joining Andrew today with her new novel Vanish

The advertising agency where Edith works is going through a restructure. Everyone is worried that the new Swedish owners will bring their own team and they’ll be out of a job. When a select group are chosen for a corporate retreat Edith assumes that this is her chance to show her worth. The assignment is simple; find a best work friend. Easy for Edith, she’s already got Mo and so the retreat should be a piece of cake. I mean what could go wrong in a converted Convent watched over by a saint called Christina the Astonishing?!

Vijay Khurana is a writer and translator from German. He’s joining Andrew with his debut novel, The Passenger Seat, which was shortlisted for the Novel Prize.

Laura Elvery is the author of Trick of the Light and Ordinary Matter, which won the 2021 Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection. Laura’s joining Andrew today with her first novel Nightingale.

Vijay Khurana is a writer and translator from German. His debut novel, The Passenger Seat, was shortlisted for the Novel Prize.

Chris is the award winning author of Mammoth - the story of a loquacious fossil, The Glass Kingdom - a drug fueled romp through outback Australia and perhaps the strangest of all Here Be Leviathans - a collection of Monkey’s, Platypuses and Sabretooth Tigers working well outside their pay grade. Chris is back with his new novel Orpheus Nine

Caro Llewellyn is the author of the Stella Prize shortlisted memoir Diving into Glass, and has worked with writers in publishing and as a Festival Director and human rights advocate. Her new novel is Love Unedited

When Brynn awakes from her coma her life is still the same picture of suburban idyll. It’s just Brynn doesn’t seem to fit it anymore. She speaks fluent French, a thing called Foreign Accent Syndrome, and English is an effort.

Rachael Johns was an English teacher before making her dreams of becoming a novelist come true. Her book The Patterson Girls won the ABIA Award in 2016 for General Fiction and she has also won the prestigious Romance Writers of Australia RUBY Award twice. Rachael is joining us today with her new novel The Bad Bridesmaid

Andie is determined to help her best friend Taylor through her divorce. A week on Pearl Island is just the beginning. Andie has an itinerary designed to help them forget men and melt away all their dramas. Except that Andie certainly hasn’t prepared for double booked bucks parties to crash their house. She’s underwhelmed by her friend's immediate gravitation towards these overbearing men. This week is meant to be about the girls and so she definitely hasn’t planned for any handsome, barefoot boat captains to come paddleboarding her way.

We Speak of Flowers comprises 101 interconnected fragments that can be read in any order, attempting to make sense of grief in the face of great pain.

Steve MinOn is the winner of the Glendower Award for an Emerging Queensland Writer 2023. First Name Second Name is his first novel

How could everything have gone so wrong? In the summer of 2008 the Kelly family are enjoying a holiday in the south of France. Bruce, Vanessa, their daughters Skye and Anika and Anika’s best friend Cass.The holiday seems something of an idyll until Cass goes missing. She is discovered hours later locked in an ancient icehouse but the question remains how?